The City Planners (by Margaret Atwood) Flashcards
what does this poem try to show?
how we are destroying the environment through our development
what does suburban mean?
an area outside of the city
but near it consisting of houses.
what is Irony?
where the opposite happens to what you
expect.
what is free verse?
a form of poem with no consistent
rhyme/ metre
what is Enjambment?
where a line of poetry continues to
the next without any punctuation.
define Oxymoron
two words next to each other that
contradict/ undermine one another.
what does the form of the city planers’ stanzas getting smaller and smaller show?
showing the reducing amount of enviroment
what was Margaret Atwood’s occupation?
a poet,
novelist, story writer, essayist, and
environmental activist.
what are some recurrent themes in Margaret Atwood’s novels?
Role reversal and new beginnings
what is Margaret Atwood’s opinion on climate change?
“responding to climate change requires change at every level - in our
technologies, economic structures, and social practices.”
what is The City Planners about?
our approach to
urbanisation, housing, and
suburban development.
what does the City Planners display the city planners as?
“insane faces of political conspirators”
